The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6, sentence 20
I found my bride, and lost her again at the same instant, through the terrible operation of sins committed in a former birth.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, lose, commit, operate · To what, where: bride, same instant, sins, former birth
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bride | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lost | cc |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 lost | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 instant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 instant | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 instant | amod |
| 13 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 operation | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 operation | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 operation | det |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 operation | amod |
| 18 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sins | case |
| 20 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 operation | nmod |
| 21 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sins | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 birth | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 birth | det |
| 24 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 birth | amod |
| 25 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 committed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | I | my bride | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | I not said here | bride | the same instant | again | through the terrible operation of sins | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |
| 3 | commit | participle | sins not said here | a former birth | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in birth=Destination | ||||
| 4 | operate | sins | nom operation «state transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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